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Excavation
Date 1984
Event ID 1030486
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1030486
Excavation of a short sector of the lower rampart at the E end of Traprain Law revealed at least three phases in the construction commencing with two paralllel palisade trenches replaced by a bank and a ditch. Over these a further earthen bank with an outer stone revetment was built after a period of abandonment. This later refurbishment may be connected with an area of large flat slabs set tightly together on the line of the bank and a posthole, suggesting the possibility of a gateway.
